We updated the Component Reference – which not contains both the API documentation and the examples from the demo workplace.

The reference can be accessed from the demo workplace and from the Layout Editor.

Half a year ago in December 2020 we organized our first online community meeting. The feedback was very good so that we now continue with two additional info and education sessions in June.

The sessions are scheduled at

• Thursday, June 17th, 15:00h – 16:00h
• Thursday, June 24th, 15:00h – 16:00h

Please check and save the dates. Detailed information including the Zoom link for participation are available >HERE<.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

…and: of course the feedback also included that many of you are looking forward to the next “real” community meeting! 😉 Well, that’s the same on our side – but we still have to wait for some more clarification about the Covid-situation.

Popups can be opened as “lightweight side popups”:

The position at the side of the browser screen is kept also during resizing the browser. The content and size of the popups is freely define-able. – The popups are typically used for overlaying important functions and information on top of the current content.

Fields provide the possibility to type in special characters that are not available by using the physical keyboard.

The dialog is opened on “alt-k” (or any other hot-key that you configure) and shows variants for the current character. The selection is either done by mouse click or by typing in the number below the key. The information, which special cahracters are available is configure-able – CaptainCasa comes with some default configuration.

This function is one which is typically mandatory in state offices, in which e.g. the name of persons must be correctly spelled in a fast, efficient way.

Take a look onto the lightweight Pivot component, that was functionally enriched with the last update.

The usage is very simple: you pass the raw data (some key-value-tupels), define which keys to arrange on the left and which keys to arrange on the top – that’s it!

In addition you now can interact with the component in a fine-granular way and…

• update the rendering (colors, formats, widths, …)
• receive events from user selections so that you know what’s going on inside

The component is part of the add-on package which is available for free – including all source code.

A new add-on is available: the “Cluster and Version Manager”.

The add-on addresses two functional areas:

• Load distribution – How to distribute load in a cluster of multiple CaptainCasa runtime installations
• Version management – How to set up scenarios in which different versions of one application run in parallel and how to seamlessly migrate users from the one to the next version

The Cluster and Version Manager is an add-on. Which means: you receive both the runtime version (.war file) and the code (GIT repository) and you are allowed to do anything with it! There is no cost or whatever involved for using it.

The Cluster Manager is not a replacement of other frameworks in the area of cluster management (Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, …) – but works in harmony with these frameworks!

Please check the documentation >HERE<.
 

During application processing by default some animated waiting-image is shown on top of the current dialog:

Now it is extremely simple to notify the user in addition about the progress of the server side processing and to pass some progress level and text to the client:

There is no necessity anymore to decouple the application processing into some own thread in order to “free up” the UI-request-thread. You just need to call a new Java-API:

...
BlockerInfo.sendProgressToClient(<text>,<percentageNumber>);
...

Internally the progress information is passed through a web socket connection that is automatically established between the client and the server.

Dear community,

we will not allow this year to pass by without having met as community! Too many things have happened inside our framework that require to be communicated – and too many things have happened on your side to be communicated back to us.

So we decided to close this year with an online version of the community meeting. The meeting is split up into 3 sessions, each one lasting 1 hour. The sessions start at:

• Thursday, Dec 3rd, 15:00h (German time)
• Thursday, Dec 10th, 15:00h
• Thursday, Dec 17th, 15:00h

Please check and save the dates. All logistics details are available in the forum: please click >HERE<.

Meeting you “online” will not be the same experience as our normal, “real” meeting! (And there is no evening event the day before…) But: let’s give a try! We are looking forward to meeting you!

Björn + Team

We want to (re-)emphasize this way of implementing your server-side view part. So we wrote some tech paper, showing how to use and how to take benefit. Please take a look directly HERE or open the document in our documentation area.

There are several updates within the grid processing (component FIXGRID) that are part of the recent updates.

The grid rows’ heights now can follow the height of the contained cell components – so that each content row receives the individual size that is desires to be correctly displayed:

Still the normal grid features (server side scrolling, moving data through components rather than building up a big number of components) are kept.

You now can group columns into groups of columns – and build up any grouping hierarchy level within the column headers:

Sorting, re-arranging of columns by drag/drop, hiding/showing and resizing of columns is still supported – and was adapted correspondingly. Example: you only can re-arrange columns within one group.

Please check the demo workplace (“News” section) for examples and detailed information about how to use.